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firewire hard drive not mounting
Name: sickassmick Date: August 3, 2003 at 18:53:38 Pacific OS: OS X.2.6 CPU/Ram: G4 500
Comment:
i just installed mac os x and when i boot it up i can't see my firewire hard drive. I can go into disk utility and see it in there, but when i go to mount it, it wont. I can boot back up into os 9 and see it fine. What's going on here?
Name: saverrio Date: August 3, 2003 at 19:44:27 Pacific
Reply:
Who is the maker of the Firewire Drive. Most likely you need a driver for OS X
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Response Number 2
Name: sickassmick Date: August 3, 2003 at 21:12:29 Pacific
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the maker of the drive is acom data. They have a driver on their web site but it is a usb 2.0 driver. I never had to install a driver for it on os 9. If i unplug the drive and plug it back in (usb or firewire) it will say that the device contains no volumes readable by os x. It asks me to initialize, but I know not to do that. In os 9 the format of the disk shows up as mac os extended... same as my other two discs. I don't get it.
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Response Number 3
Name: saverrio Date: August 3, 2003 at 21:30:56 Pacific
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Your right. That is very confusing. By all standards, you have it set up correct.
OS Extended should show up on OS X. The USB 2.0 shouldn't make a difference because it is Firewire.
Have you tried calling Apple. Do you still have tech support?
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